"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind."

-- Alexander Pope

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“A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth â€” thatâ€™s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.”
“When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.”
“So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.”

Source : Teresa Amabile (1989). “Growing up creative: nurturing a lifetime of creativity”, Crown Pub
“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'”
“The present order is the disorder of the future.”

Source : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alec Finlay (2012). “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”
“If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.”

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